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To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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 Mittelstaedt's message of "Sat, 12 Feb 2005 03:33:00 -0800")
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"Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> writes:
> I don't see why you are so proud of not doing this.  Is it your
> intention to cause problems for companies that want to use FreeBSD
> in their products?  This sort of thing is exactly what the
> chicken littles like Anthony are talking about.  It isn't going
> to matter to some lawyer charged with vetting the code to make
> sure that using it in a company's project is OK, that your and
> the other's copyright is equivalent to the BSD one.  He is going
> to see this and wonder why it wasn't disclosed in the docs where
> it should have been, and what else is being hidden.

You need to understand the difference between copyright and license,
and stop looking for black helicopters.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no